Neslo Software, Inc.

Eight or sixteen computers connected to a KVM switch almost work together like a single system...except when you want to copy a file from one computer to all of the others. You are stuck mapping drives.

What about when you want to copy some text or a portion of a document from one computer to another?...you have to copy the text to a file...map a drive...copy the file to the drive...open the file on the other computer...and so on.

Even if you don't use a KVM switch, you have probably wanted to share clipboard data between computers that you work with. Clipboard Rover™ is the solution to these problems. It allows you to share clipboard data between up to 32 computers and you don't have to do anything other than copy on one computer and paste on another (or several others).

It supports most registered (application specific) and standard clipboard formats and presents multiple formats to the remote computer so that applications can select the format that is best for them. Groups of files and/or folders can also be copied and then pasted remotely. The actual data is not sent over the network until a specific clipboard format is requested (by a user action).

Here is how you would set up your computers to be in a clipboard group:

1. Install Clipboard Rover on each computer that you would like to have share clipboard data. They must be connected to a TCP/IP network.
2. Run the program on each computer.
3. Cancel out of the group configuration dialog on each computer except the last one.
4. Using the Group Configuration dialog, add the name of each computer you want to be in the clipboard group.
5. Save the group and verify connections using the Show Current Connections tray menu option.

You should also use the Install Settings dialog to set the Data Privacy Key if you want to keep your data more private. This is case sensitive and should be identical on each computer in your clipboard group.

1. Disable the native copy and paste functionality under the Edit -> Preferences dialog.
2. Make sure networking and name resolutions is set up properly between the host and virtual computers.
3. Install Clipboard Rover on host and virtual computers as described above.

1. Microsoft® Windows 98, Windows ME, NT4 sp6a, Windows 2000,  XP, and 2003 operating systems are supported.
2. Disk space and memory as required by the operating system.
3. Each computer must be connected to an IP network with network cards installed correctly and the IP protocol enabled.
4. Name resolution must be enabled on the network.

Not all clipboard formats can be copied and pasted remotely. If the data placed on the clipboard for a given format is self contained, a remote copy will be successful. Self contained means all necessary data is actually placed on the clipboard. Plain text is a self contained clipboard format; the actual ascii characters in the string are placed on the clipboard and no other data is necessary to use the string.

There are registered (application specific) clipboard formats and even some standard formats that are not self contained. Data placed on the clipboard for these formats refers to other data that is not actually on the clipboard. It may be a system wide handle or object that only has meaning on the local system. If we sent this type of clipboard data to a remote computer, the handle or object would not exist or not be the same on the remote computer, so the paste would fail. Our software attempts to not send these formats to remote computers, but it can only exclude formats it knows about. Since new registered formats can be defined by any application, you may see situations where the remote paste is attempted, but no data is pasted.